rakkasan said:
You need to do some research before you try to blow smoke up someones ass.
Patent
"A patent is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is usually 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States. The right of a patent is the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States. Basically, a patent gives the owner the right to a monopoly on the use and sell of the invention for a period of time."
Patent Requirements
"To get a patent, your invention or discovery must meet certain requirements before the Patent and Trademark office will grant a patent. For a utility patent (the most common type of patent), the invention must be either: a process or method for producing a “useful, concrete, and tangible result”; a machine; an article of manufacture; a composition of matter; or an improvement of an invention that fits into one of the above categories."
"In addition to falling within one of the above categories, the invention must also have some utility or usefulness, be novel or different from something else in an important way, and be nonobvious to someone who understands the technical field of invention."
"For design patents, the invention must be novel, nonobvious, and nonfunctional. For a plant patent, the plant must be novel and nonobvious to qualify for a patent."
I found nothing about the ability to renew a patent, so if I'm wrong, you'll have to prove it to me.
Intellectual Property is a form of a copyright, not patents. IP deals with ideas, not property. So your theory about Intellectual property protection is bunk. Have you ever wondered why generic drugs exist for some medication but not others? It's because the patent expired and the developing company lost its' right to be the sole manufacturer of it.
For your ease of research, I'll provide this link:
Click me
You can renew a patent. :yawn:
http://www.inventkansas.com/content.php?cid=1003
COSTS INVOLVED IN PATENTS as of February 1, 2005
Disclosure Document $10
Provisional Application $200
Utility Patent Filing Fee $300
Design Patent Filing Fee $200
Plant Patent Filing Fee $200
Utility Patent Issue Fee $1,400
Design Patent Issue Fee $800
Plant Patent Issue Fee $1,100
Printed Copy of Patent $3
Patent Renewal Costs
After 3.5 years $900
After 7.5 years $2,300
After 11.5 years $3,800
Check with PTO for all updated fees for these and other services.
USPTO:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/2004/040606_earnedrev.html
"Patent maintenance fees are the largest source of earned revenue, and as they are recognized immediately, any fluctuations in the rates of renewal have a significant impact on the total earned revenue of the USPTO. To some extent, renewals recoup costs incurred during the initial patent process"
My point with the patent blog: You CAN use existing ideas, pull them together, and use them for you own. Was it your info that helped? Maybe, but bottom line, you didn't make the final product. Boo hoo.
IP: Simply an example of how you can claim rights to an invention, process, etc, and have many, many sources that you pull from to actually make the invention what it is....isn't that the whole argument here or am I wrong??
Oh, here is a link...LMAO...from the World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/
"
Intellectual property is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which
includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs."
YOU:
Intellectual Property is a form of a copyright, not patents
lol...that was fun... :biglaugh:
